Congratulations on your boneheaded April 27 editorial egging on the attorney general to punish the 15 members of the special state commission on education funding because they were either unaware or saw no compelling reason to object to excluding uninvited non-members, who were turned away from the commission’s initial, closed-door meeting, at which nothing of substance was discussed or on the agenda.

Your editorial ensures that the members of the commission will be angry for committing an unintended, unpardonable sin and hesitate to attend future meetings. You foment further divisiveness between the executive and the legislative branches, and you add to the public’s cynicism and distrust of politics and the media.

This is a relatively minor incident, which could easily have been smoothed over with a few mea culpas, but you chose to magnify it into an earth-shaking event. It did not involve dishonesty, fraud or malfeasance of any public official or other member of the commission, nor did it threaten to bring down the government.

And this is yet another chapter in your relentless, paranoid hatred of Gov. LePage.

Your contributions to the public weal are unprecedented.

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